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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled - Timber Circle in Wales in Powys

Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 22 December 2002  Page Views: 13385

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled
Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Timber Circle

Map Ref: SJ219049  Landranger Map Number: 126
Latitude: 52.636205N  Longitude: 3.155499W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled submitted by havelw : Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled (Vote or comment on this photo)
Timber Circle in Powys. Excavations between 1990–92 at Sarn-y-bryn-caled, in advance of the construction of the new Welshpool bypass, revealed important evidence of the development of a funerary and ritual complex identified largely by aerial photography. The excavations established that the complex developed over the course of almost 2000 years, between the later Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.

A Reconstruction of the Early Bronze Age timber circle is shown on this CPAT page. The site is south of Welshpool, built about 2100 BC. The circle was formed of massive postholes — twenty in the outer circle and six in the inner circle — which originally held timbers about half a metre in diameter. The reconstruction, modelled on the famous contemporary stone circle at Stonehenge, was undertaken with assistance from Powis Castle Estates. Source: CPAT
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SJ2104 : Path to Sarn-y-bryn-caled by Bill Boaden
by Bill Boaden
©2012(licence)
SJ2104 : A field of maize near Sarn-y-bryn-caled by Bill Boaden
by Bill Boaden
©2012(licence)
SJ2104 : The A483 approaching the Sarn-y-bryn-caled roundabout by Bill Boaden
by Bill Boaden
©2012(licence)
SJ2104 : Stubble field near Sarn roundabout by John Firth
by John Firth
©2009(licence)
SJ2105 : The end of the old A483 by Bill Boaden
by Bill Boaden
©2012(licence)

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Re: Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled by SumDoood on Monday, 13 August 2018
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Lots more info here:

http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/course-materials/ARCL3068_59487.pdf
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Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled by coldrum on Tuesday, 05 July 2011
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Coflein entry.

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/307114/details/SARN-Y-BRYN+CALED+PIT+CIRCLE/
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Flint arrowheads from Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled, near Welshpool by Andy B on Monday, 10 March 2008
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Flint arrowheads recovered from the cursus complex at Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled, south of Welshpool. The arrowheads were recovered from the cremated remains of the primary burial at the site. They are white because they have been burnt, suggesting that they were actually in the corpse when it was cremated.

The cursus complex at Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled is a long, rectangular ditched enclosure about 10 metres wide and 400 metres long. It had banks on the outside of the ditches and had been dated to the Neolithic period about 3700 BC. The purpose of the cursus is obscure, but it appears to have been a ritual site. The cursus attracted other ritual and burial sites. Ring ditches, ploughed-out burial mounds, cluster around its northern end and there is also a large ritual enclosure or 'henge' monument partly underlying Mill Lane.

The construction of the Welshpool by-pass prompted the excavation of some of the components of the cursus complex. A small penannular ditch to the south-east of the complex produced four human cremation burials and fragments of late Neolithic Peterborough Pottery. Radiocarbon dates of c. 2900 BC were obtained for the site. The ring ditches of Coed-y-Dinas produced more than thirty vessels of Beaker pottery and dates of 1900 BC.

The most spectacular monument so far excavated was the timber circle at Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled. This was a double circle of large oak posts standing about 4 metres high. An entrance faced south suggesting the possibility of sun worship or orientation. A central burial pit contained two human cremation burials; one was associated with a small Bronze Age food vessel pot and the other, the primary burial, appeared to be a human sacrifice as the four high quality barbed and tanged flint arrowheads shown here were found in the burial and had probably been the cause of death. This practice can be paralleled at Stonehenge.

Description: Powysland Museum and Montgomery Canal Centre

Photos of the arrowheads are here:
http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/21625
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Re: Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled by Anonymous on Tuesday, 08 May 2007
sarnybryncaled woodhenge is under new bypass but after dig was finished a reconstuction was made i have photos of this spencer@sarnybryn.freeserve.co.uk.
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